Arrangement

Women, Power and Peacemaking in Africa

Forelesning

Dato: 09.02.2010  Tid: 13.00-15.00

Sted: Roskilde, Danmark

Centre for Gender, Power and Diversity invites you to a lecture by Prof. Aili Tripp on 'Women, Power, and Peacemaking in Africa'

The lecture by Prof. Aili Tripp is based on current research in Liberia, Angola, Uganda, DR Congo. The talk examines why almost all post-conflict countries in Africa have double the rates of female legislative representation compared with countries that have not undergone conflict. Moreover, these countries tend to have been more open to passing legislation and making constitutional changes relating to women's rights. The talk is based on comparative research across Africa as well as fieldwork in Uganda, Liberia, Angola and DR Congo. Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also director of the Women's Studies Research Center. She has co-authored with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa a book entitled African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (Cambridge University Press 2009) and is author of Women and Politics in Uganda (2000) and Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997). Recently she completed a book manuscript Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime and is currently working on another book entitled, Gender, Power and Peacemaking in Africa. She has published numerous co-edited volumes, articles and book chapters on global feminism, women and politics in Africa; women's responses to economic reform; and transformations of associational life in Africa. Tripp co-edits the journal Politics & Gender as well as a book series on Women in Africa and the Diaspora for the University of Wisconsin Press. The lecture takes place on February 9 2010 at Roskilde University in Building 25.1, the theory room, from 13.00 - 15.00

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Center for Køn, Magt og Mangfoldighed

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